# Zoulikha Nasri

Zoulikha Nasri (1945 – 16 December 2015) was a Moroccan politician. She was an advisor to King Mohammed VI and managing director of the Mohammed V Foundation for Solidarity. She was Morocco's first female royal advisor.

## Biography

Nasri was born in Oujda, Morocco, a city in northeast Morocco, near the Algerian border, in 1935. After earning a Masters of Law at the Mohammed V University in Rabat, she enrolled in the National School of Administration, graduating in 1967 in finance and economics 3. Following graduation, she traveled to France to work in private law at the Institute of Insurance of Lyon.
She then joined the Moroccan Ministry of Finance as an official. She rose through the ranks until her appointment in 1994, head of the Directorate of Insurance.
In August 1997, she was appointed Secretary of State to the Minister of Social Affairs, in charge of the National Mutual Aid in Government Filali III 4.
In 1998, she was called to join the royal cabinet as Counsellor of the sovereign in charge of social and economic affairs. She was appointed by the late King Hassan II. In 1999, she participated in creating the Mohammed V Solidarity Foundation, and was appointed associate director.
She died in December 2015 in Rabat.
Cabinet of Abdellatif Filali III 1997-1998 :
| Portfolio | Incumbent | Party | Term |
| Prime Minister | Abdellatif Filali (b. 1929) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs | Abdellatif Filali (b. 1929) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of State | Moulay Ahmed Alaoui (b. 1919) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Interior | Driss Basri (b. 1938) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Justice | Omar Azziman (b. 1947) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Finance, Trade, Industry and Crafts | Driss Jettou (b. 1945) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Agriculture, Equipment and Environment | Abdelaziz Meziane Belfkih | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Habous and Islamic Affairs | Abdelkbir Alaoui M’Daghri (b. 1942) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Housing, Employment and Vocational Training | Mourad Cherif | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Fishery, Administrative Affairs and Relations with the Parliament | Mostapha Sahel (b. 1946) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Communication and Spokesperson of the Government | Driss Alaoui M’Daghri (b. 1944) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Youth & Sports and National Cooperation | Abdellatif Guerraoui | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Telecommunications | Abdeslam Ahizoune | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Culture | Driss Khalil | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Education | Rachid Belmokhtar (b. 1942) | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Ministry of Transport, Merchant Navy, Tourism, Energy and Mines | Driss Benhima (b. 1954) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary General of the Government | Abdessadeq Rabiaa (b. 1945) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Delegate-Ministry for the Administration of National Defense | Abderrahmane Sbai (b. 1940) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Delegate-Ministry for the Establishment of the State | Abderrahmane Saidi | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | Taieb Fassi Fihri (b. 1958) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for Culture | Aziza Bennani | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for Finance | Abdelfettah Benmansour | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for Trade, Industry and Crafts | Abderazzak El Mossadeq (b. 1948) | Independent | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for the Promotion of Agriculture | Abdeladim El Hafi | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for the Environment | Houssein Tijani | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for the Development of the Mining Sector | Amina Benkhadra (b. 1954) | RNI | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for Health | Fouad Hammadi | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for National Cooperation | Zoulikha Nasri | | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for Youth and Sports | Nawal El Moutawakil (b. 1962) | RNI | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Secretary of State for Human Rights | Mohamed Ziane | UC | 13 August 1997 - 14 March 1998 |
| Key | Independent |
| Key | National Rally of Independents (RNI) |
| Key | Constitutional Union (UC) |
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